Beloved Lady

Written in 1993 / Recorded in 1995 with Culotte

Apart from my personal experimental stuff, things I wrote for my band Culotte were usually supposed to present Pop stuff sophisticated with musical intelligence mainly gained from the field of Prog Rock. In this view point, this tune might be one of the finest examples from ours. When I wrote this tune in 1993, I was still obsessed with the idea to employ digital sequencer as the fourth personnel of the band, simply because I wanted to be liberated from playing necessary backing part by the guitar. As we experienced on such attempts, I took to recognise that the idea was unrealistic, unless we could access to better monitoring system, and unnatural for a band like us.

It took us two years to record this tune in studio since the time of writing. By the time we recorded this demo, the drummer gradually gained confidence for dealing with this kind of material. Other parts are not much important; acoustic, electric, and bass guitars are only repeating basic patterns in accordance with the programmed synthesizer. In addition, I have to admit that the contents of this tune are pretty poor, especially in terms of chord progression. The decline in my creativity at that time can be excused by blaming on a lady, to whom this tune was addressed to.